Is Chrome eating all your RAM? Does your laptop swap and page out then slow to a
snail’s pace 🐌? Looking for a quick fix that doesn’t mean upgrading hardware?
And, do you run Linux? If you answered yes and if you can find them, then you
could hire …
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Mon 16 December 2019
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Why Can’t I Ping My Router?
Sat 14 December 2019I recently upgraded to gigabit Internet at home but unfortunately my old faithful router running OpenWRT just couldn’t keep up with the faster speeds. I needed something with hardware offloading and didn’t want to use the ISP provided solution, so since I like Ubiquiti I decided on an …
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CloudFlare DDclient Patch Merged Upstream
Wed 09 September 2015I’ve just noticed my patch for ddclient has been merged upstream, many thanks to Robert Ian Hawdon for taking care of that. Version 3.8.3 has since been released so I recommend any new users wanting dynamic DNS on Cloudflare use this rather than resorting to manual patching …
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Cloudflare DDclient Patch Update
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Picolocation
Wed 26 March 2014I recently heard of Picolocation and sent them my Raspberry Pi to host in their Aberdeen data centre. I knew this was a somewhat risky move and could backfire. Unfortunately it did and so here is what happened.
For starters it looks like my SD card got damaged in transit …
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Bath Uni Project Poster Template
Sun 23 March 2014Part of my degree is a final year project and part of that is producing and presenting an academic poster. I had no idea what the hell this was so thankfully we got given a LaTeX template to get us started.
What ensued was everyone getting confused at how this …
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New VPS
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A script to reboot all your homeplugs!
Fri 21 March 2014Homeplugs are awesome! I use them for some of the networking at home where I need better throughput or latency than WiFi. They work well for this but there’s a downside. Inevitably they seem to get themselves all mixed up which leads to increased latency and eventually a total …
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Introducing DDFlare
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Recent Downtime
Fri 25 October 2013Apologies to anyone who couldn’t reach the site the past couple of days. My phoneline blew up and it took BT a few days to fix it up again. Still seem to be some issues though since my connection is only going half as fast as before :(.